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Salient. Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 23. September 20, 1976

Backward Traditions

Backward Traditions

"Our liberation must arm itself with revolutionary ideology, which alone permits us to systematically attack all the reactionary traditional beliefs. Tradition often plays a negative role, in opposition to the process of liberation. The specific objective of the woman, equality with men, must be among the objectives of the revolution, practically and ideologically."

During a political debate regarding the involvement of women in military action, one woman painfully expressed what it meant to be a Palestinian woman when she called on her sisters.....

"....look sisters, Palestine beckons us to redeem her, and here we are squabbling among ourselves about parents and families.....I think we should overcome this kind of adolescence and act as grown-up women, not as appendages to our men, or maids to our parents...!"